Ode To A Banker - (Marco Didius Falco: book XII): a mesmerising and murderous mystery set in Ancient Rome by bestselli

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work.